(meteorobs) Meteor Watching and Wild Animals
GeoZay at aol.com
GeoZay at aol.com
Sun Nov 1 09:26:36 EST 2009
>>So far in this part of the country mountain lions are rare and they
usually do not attack people, but sometimes they do.<<
I don't know what part of the country you are in, but where I observed was
in Descanso, California within San Diego County. This is in southern
california and just outside Cuyamaca State Park. I don't know about now, but when
I was there in the 90's, that area was basically known as mountain lion
central. Within a few years, there were several human attacks that I can
remember. One was an old woman being killed...that occurred roughly 7 miles
from where I observed. A 5 year old child was attacked in broad daylight
amidst many people(that was about 3 miles from my observatory). Another attack I
can recall was to a horse and rider. The lion tried, but failed and
shortly ran off. We belonged to a hiking club down there and an old lady that we
usually hiked with was surprised by the sudden appearance of a lion onto
the trail. It stood there about ten feet away and just looked at her.She blew
a whistle and the lion didn't move. She had a walking stick and simply
said "shoo" to it. It didn't move. She then swung her stick as hard as she
could and hit it in the head. It then turned and ran off. At the time I
remember several more lion encounters. It seems to occur to me that there were
two different human fatalities during that period, but not sure now. I know
just north of san diego in the Orange county area where Disneyland is
located, there were several lion attacks to humans in a popular park. I know at
least one was fatal. You can feel comfortable observing alone if you want,
but I usually refer to these people simply as "food". :O)
GeoZay
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